2017 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament


The 2017 SWAC Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Southwestern Athletic Conference. Tournament first-round games were played at the campus of the higher seeded team on March 7. The remainder of the tournament was held on March 10 and 11, 2017 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. Texas Southern, received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Alcorn State lost to Texas Southern in the championship game, but was ineligible for NCAA postseason play due to APR violations. Had Alcorn State beaten Texas Southern, Texas Southern would have still received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament because of its first place finish in the regular season.

Seeds

The top eight teams competed in the conference tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
SeedSchoolConferenceTiebreakerTiebreaker 2
1Texas Southern16–2
2Alcorn State13–5
3Southern10–84–2 vs. Gram/Jack/PV A&M
4Prairie View A&M10–83–3 vs. Sou/Gram/Jack+9 point differential vs. Gram
5Grambling State10–83–3 vs. Sou/Jack/PV A&M–9 point differential vs. PV A&M
6Jackson State10–82–4 vs. Sou/Gram/PV A&M
7Mississippi Valley St.7–11
8Alabama State6–121–1 vs. UAPB4 point differential vs. UAPB

Schedule and results

Bracket

First round games at campus sites of lower-numbered seeds